P.Mich.inv. 4172 / Recto

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Inventory Number

P.Mich.inv. 4172

Processing Number

2152

Section/Side

Recto, col. 102 (l. 1736-1775)

Image Side

Recto

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side

Recto; Verso of col. 102 is blank

Connections

+ P.Cair. Inv. 57187; cf. also P.Mich. IV/1, 224 + IV/2, 357 (inv. 4171 + 2830 + 3159 + 4910)

Material

Pap

Size

col. 102: 23 x 37 cm; total size: ***

Items

1

Lines

Col. 102: 40 lines + 4 in left margin

Mounted

Yes

Negative

No

Conservation Status

Col. 102: complete (papyrus cut off right of col. 102 when housed in glass); cols. 65-101 were cut off and are missing.

Status

published

Library

Ann Arbor

Contents

Date

173-174 A.D.

Origin

Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Provenance

Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition

Acquired from Nahman in October 1924, through the British Museum; arrived in Ann Arbor in October 1926. (See also inv. 2830; 4171; etc.)

Language

Greek

Genre

Documentary

Author

Unknown tax-collector (Sarapion, son of Sokrates?)

Type of Text/Title of Work

Tax Roll

Content

Tax register, recording the daily collection of money taxes in the village of Karanis; the name of each tax-payer paying the poll-tax is cross-referenced with a page of another register, where taxpayers were listed geographically

Subject Headings

Physicians--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)

Irrigation engineers--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)

Slaves--Taxation--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)

Real property tax--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)

Poll tax--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)

Tax collection--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)

Women--Taxation--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)

Leprosy--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)

Tax collection--Egypt--Psenarpsen¯esis (Extinct city)

Persons

Petheus son of Petesouchos (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 203);

Ebasthanmintiles (Ebathanmintiles) (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 162);

Pakysis son of Kalatytes and Segathis grandson of Heras (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 195);

Artemis daughter of Mysthes (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 156);

Phasis son of Pakysis (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 246);

Soeris daughter of Teos (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 230);

Nikephoros, doulos of Longinus Isidoros (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 191);

Iulius Ptolemaios (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 178);

Maximus, lepros (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 186);

Ptollis son of Orsenouphis (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 221);

Heras (mechanarios) (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 168);

Mystharion son of Ischyrion and Tapetheus grandson of Euemeros (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 188);

Pnepheros son of Petheus and Thaisas grandson of Petesouchos (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 213);

Phaesis son of Pasoxis and Tapetsiris grandson of Phaesis (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 244);

Gaius Iulius Priscus (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 159);

Akousarion daughter of Thankotis

Tapetesouchos daughter of Korakion (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 237);

Melanous alias Tasoucharion daughter of Petesouchos (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 188);

Chairemon son of Ouasis (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 247);

Tkames iatros

Theagenes

(unknown tax-collector)

Geographica

Karanis; Psenarpsenesis

Translation

(Col.) 102

On Pauni 4:

Petheus, son of Petesouchos - (through) Ebasthanmintiles -, for garden land, for year 13: for apomoira, 5 obols; for olive (transportation), 1 obol; for naubion, 1/2 obol; for supplements, 1 1/2 obols; for eparourion, 3 1/2 obols; for supplements, 1/2 obol; for kollybos, 1/2 obol. Total: 2 drachmai 1/2 obol. (In left margin: 20 obols.)

Pakysis, son of Kalatytes and Segathis, grandson of Heras: 16 drachmai

column 39

Artemis, daughter of Mysthes - (through) Phasis, son of Pakysis -, for garden land, for year 13: for apomoira, 6 drachmai 3 obols; for olive (transportation), 5 obols 1/2 2 chalkoi; for naubion, 4 obols; for supplements, 1 drachme 4 obols; for eparourion, 4 drachmai 2 obols; for supplements, 2 obols 2 chalkoi; for kollybos, 1 1/2 obols. Total: 14 drachmai 4 1/2 obols. (In left margin: 20 drachmai 9 obols.) and

Soeris, daughter of Teos, through Phasis, son of Pakysis, for garden land, for year 13: for apomoira, 2 drachmai 2 obols 2 chalkoi; for olive (transportation), 2 obols 2 chalkoi; for naubion, 1 obol 2 chalkoi; for supplements, 3 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi; for eparourion, 1 drachme 3 1/2 obols; for supplements, 1 obol; for kollybos, 1/2 obol 2 chalkoi. Total: 5 drachmai 2 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi.

Nikephoros, slave of Longinus Isidoros, for ch(--): 4 drachmai

column 57

Iulius Ptolemaios - (through) Maximus the leper -, for garden land, for year 13: for apomoira, 39 drachmai 1 obol; for olive (transportation), 5 drachmai 3 obols; for naubion, 3 drachmai 5 1/2 obols; for supplements, 9 drachmai 4 1/2 obols; for eparourion, 26 drachmai 1 obol; for supplements, 2 drachmai 1 1/2 obols; for kollybos, 1 drachme 2 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi. Total: 88 drachmai 1 obol 2 chalkoi. (In left margin: 88 drachmai 6 obols.)

Ptollis, son of Orsenouphis - (through) Heras, worker on irrigation machines -, for garden land: for apomoira, 2 drachmai 5 obols; for olive (transportation), 2 1/2 obols; for naubion, 1 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi; for supplements, 4 obols 2 chalkoi; for eparourion, 1 drachme 5 1/2 obols; for supplements, 1 obol; for kollybos, 1/2 obol 2 chalkoi. Total: 6 drachmai 1/2 obol 2 chalkoi;

for the naubion of the catoeci, for year 14: 4 obols; for supplements: 1/2 obol; for kollybos: 2 chalkoi. Total: 4 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi (In left margin: 8 drachmai.)

Mystharion, son of Ischyrion and Tapetheus, grandson of Euemeros: 8 drachmai

column 56

Pnepheros, son of Petheus and Thaisas, grandson of Petesouchos, for ch(--): 4 drachmai

column 59

Phaesis, son of Pasoxis and Tapetsiris, grandson of Phaesis: 12 drachmai

column 58

Gaius Iulius Priscus - (through) Akousarion, daughter of Thankotis -, for garden land, for year 13: for apomoira, 5 drachmai 3 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi; for olive (transportation), 4 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi; for naubion, 3 1/2 obols; for supplements, 1 drachme 2 1/2 obols; for eparourion, 3 drachmai 4 1/2 obols; for supplements, 2 obols; for kollybos, 1 obol 2 chalkoi. Total: 12 drachmai 4 obols 2 chalkoi;

for the naubion of the catoeci, for year 14: 3 drachmai 3 1/2 obols; for supplements: 2 obols 2 chalkoi. Total: 4 drachmai 2 chalkoi.

for the naubion of owners of private land, similarly: 1 drachme; for supplements: 1 obol 2 chalkoi; for kollybos, 2 chalkoi. Total: 1 drachme 1 obol 2 chalkoi. (In left margin: 16 drachmai 23 obols.)

Tapetesouchos, daughter of Korakion, through Melanous also called Tasoucharion, daughter of Petesouchos, for garden land, for year 13, for Karanis (and) Psenarpsenesis: for apomoira, 20 drachmai 3 1/2 obols; for olive (transportation), 3 drachmai 1 obol 2 chalkoi; for naubion, 2 drachmai 1/2 obol; for supplements, 5 drachmai 1 obol 2 chalkoi; for eparourion, 17 drachmai 3 1/2 obols; for supplements, 1 drachme 3 obols; for kollybos, 5 obols 2 chalkoi. Total: 51 drachmai 2 chalkoi;

for the naubion of the catoeci, for year 14: 2 drachmai 5 1/2 obols; for supplements: 2 obols; for kollybos: 1/2 obol. Total: 3 drachmai 2 obols;

other (parcels): for garden-land for year 13: for apomoira, 1 drachme 4 obols; for olive (transportation), 1 1/2 obols; for naubion, 1 obol; for supplements, 2 1/2 obols; for eparourion, 1 drachme 1/2 obol 2 chalkoi; for supplements, 1/2 obol 2 chalkoi; for kollybos, 1/2 obol. Total: 3 drachmai 5 obols. (In left margin: 56 drachmai 26 obols.)

(Account in left margin:)

Of Chairemon, son of Ouasis: 4 drachmai

of Tkames the physician: 36 drachmai

Of Theagenes: 8 obols

Of me: 4 drachmai 10 obols.

Papyri.info Link

https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.3263

Information on Publications

Publications

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
PMich IV/1	Youtie HC	1936	225, col. 102 (l. 1736-1775)	Youtie HC, PMich IV/1, 225, col. 102 (l. 1736-1775), 1936

Information on Publications--Bibliography

Bibliography

General bibliography on the tax rolls:

H.C. Youtie - O.M. Pearl, AJPh 57 (1936) p. 465-469; H.C. Youtie, Classical Weekly 30 (1937) p. 199-201 [= Scriptiunculae II (Amsterdam, 1973) p. 851-857, with addenda]; L.C. West - A.C. Johnson, Currency in Roman and Byzantine Egypt (Princeton, 1944) p. 20; 53-58; V.B. Schuman, CP 44 (1949) p. 236-239; D.S. Crawford, CP 45 (1950) p. 185-186; V.B. Schuman, CP 46 (1951) p. 34-36; V.B. Schuman, CP47 (1952) p. 214-218; V.B. Schuman, Aegyptus 32 (1952) p. 241-252; V.B. Schuman, Aegyptus 39 (1959) p. 223-225; V.B. Schuman, CE 38 (1963) p. 306, n. 2; C.Pap.Jud. III, No. 492; H.C. Youtie, Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of Papyrology (Toronto, 1970) p. 545-551 [= Scriptiunculae II (Amsterdam, 1973) p. 1035-1041]; H.C Youtie, ZPE 13 (1974) p. 238-239; H.C. Youtie, ZPE 15 (1974) p. 117-141; V.B. Schuman, BASP 12 (1975) p. 23-58; P.Cair.Mich. 359, introduction; J.C. Shelton, BASP 14 (1983) p. 83-93; V.B. Schuman, Archiv 29 (1983) p. 41-57; P. van Minnen, ZPE 100 (1994) p. 244-246

Availability/System Requirements

Institution

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Cataloging

Cataloger

PH

Year Begin

173

Year End

174

Technical Details

Collection

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)

Image Size

5340 x 7414

File Size

5 MB

Record

2152

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